I am a very OCD art teacher and that means taking our art jobs very seriously. Each table is color coded and represented by a clothespin on the chart. Each rotation of classes, the pins move one spot down so that kids get to trade responsibilities. The more jobs are enforced at the beginning of the year, the easier it is to keep things clean as the year moves on. I know some teachers don't "mind" the mess, but this is a really easy and important way to teach kids about being responsible with the space and the supplies. #artroom#artsupplies#artteacher#arteducation#iteachart#elementaryart#primaryartclass#responsiblelearners#ocdartteacher#backtoschool

Our Bus to the Barrick drive has reached its goal. More than one thousand students from schools across the Las Vegas Valley are going to be visiting the museum for tours and workshops over the upcoming academic year. This is important to us — and to you as well, we hope — so we’re sending out a huge thank you to everyone who contributed. (Any additional contributions today will go towards extra tours.) | Photo: UNLV Creative Services/Amanda Keating

Do hear that sound? I don’t like it. I can’t wait for the sounds that make me feel like a celebrity. A rockstar. “Art teacher laaaaadyyy!” Like the paparazzi is running me down! Ms. Dooooonald!” “Hey McDonalds!!!!” 🍟 😆 Like I’m getting off a plane and a friend is sprinting to greet me! There are few jobs that this rush happens regularly. These are just tiny surface benefits of being the art teacher. We are loved. We fill up a child’s day with color and wonder. But more importantly they fill up ours!! If this is not the case for you....then you’re doing it wrong and we need to chat. A county contractor working in the building today said....”you seem so happy to be back...” I said, “I am! This is my happy place.” And I wasn’t lying.

We have been talking a lot about rainbows in Foundation Art. I must remember to snap a picture of the collaborative art work we made 🤦🏼‍♀️. Good old ROY G BIV! Anyway, to finish off our lesson yesterday I gave the prep students the challenge of creating a rainbow to take home, but only gave them the oil pastels in primary colours. They all loved it.

TRAILER HOME PAINTING SERIES is featured in our online Roofless Gallery until September 30th. Link in bio.
🎨 by #RooflessPainter#DarleneHodgetts , created during our “plein air” painting workshop inside the Garden Of Eden On Wheels room, at the #MuseumOfJurassicTechnology . We painted from life the magnificent dioramas featuring miniature replicas of trailer homes in nocturnal settings.

TRAILER HOME PAINTING SERIES is featured in our online Roofless Gallery until September 30th. Link in bio.
🎨 by #RooflessPainter @clearwaterceron, created during our “plein air” painting workshop inside the Garden Of Eden On Wheels room, at the #MuseumOfJurassicTechnology . We painted from life the magnificent dioramas featuring miniature replicas of trailer homes in nocturnal settings.

our theme this week is “nature! science! art!” so to get ready for our field trip to a community garden tomorrow we looked at designs by brazilian landscape architect roberto burle marx, whose colorful abstracted plans full of blobby matisse shapes and mid century modern rectangular buildings are works of art in themselves, and imagined gardens of our own and made collages about them and walter asked if we could include made up plants to which i responded HECK YEAH so his garden collage is full of pizza trees which, as you can imagine, i am extremely into
#arteducation#elementaryarteducation#pizzatree

1st day jitters are in the books for these kids and their origami game is strong 💪! Shout out to the the Iwamoto family for giving the art room amazing paper from Japan! We miss you! 🐧🐶🐳 #origami#arteducation#onefps

This is why they don’t let me teach math! Seriously?! In other news?!!! I can’t seem to get anything else done right now because of how pretty this is!!!!!!! 😍🌈💋Don’t worry y’all! It’s gonna be ok! There is still time. 💜...❤️...🧡

In between helping, my kid took some fun photos today. She’s caught the rainbow virus. One of the jobs she helped me with was labeling each set of colored pencils by table number. So the set of 50 for table one all got a little “1” written in Sharpie. Same for sets 2-6. It’s ridiculous I know. But when I find them on the floor, I know where to put them! This way each table has a complete set for a lot longer than they would without the labels. I do this for markers and crayons too!

James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Described as the Victorian Mona Lisa, Whistler's Mother has become so iconic and so ubiquitous in global culture that it has been favorably compared to The Scream, Mona Lisa, and American Gothic.
American artist James McNeill Whistler is best remembered for his portrait of his beloved mother, fittingly known as Whistler's Mother. But while affection grew for this painting, which is currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through May 21, its true intentions—and even its real name—got lost. #jameswhistler#arteducation#massachusetts#famouspeople